Four Quartets

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1943).

Price: $450.00

Hardcover. Second printing (one of 3500 copies), without "First American Edition" on copyright page and without publisher's codes in brackets present in later impressions, dust jacket with $2 price on front flap and lists nine titles on rear panel. 39pp. Fellow poet Elizabeth McFarland's copy with her name penned on the front fly and pencil underlining on a few pages, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped, very good in a good only age-toned dust jacket with extremities chipped and torn, small scratch mid-spine. Eliot's masterpiece, an elaborately constructed, lyric meditation on time and the nature of experience, memory and consciousness.

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Item #538557 Four Quartets. T. S. ELIOT.

T.S. Eliot
birth name: Thomas Stearns Eliot
born: 9/26/1888
died: 1/4/1965
nationality: USA/Great Britain

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American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic, a leader of the modernist movement in poetry. In 1948 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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